A film for ya Shane "British Steel Plant Rats"
Oct 11, 2012 20:51:54 GMT
Post by lwitton01 on Oct 11, 2012 20:51:54 GMT
To Shane,
Bit new to this and dont know how else to contact you (open for details on how to do this).
I have sat with my Dad for hours talking about his past working in the British Steel works as a lad, back then called the "plant rats". Now these are the lads that the big steel companies would call in to do all the hard dirty jobs.
I want to talk to you or be able to send you some memories of my Dads as would make an amazing idea for a film, now I mean this isnt anything that has been done before, slightly 'Kes' styled but miles more then that, you would do it justice!
Just his stories of the guys in the canteen on dinner back in the late 70's, playing 'chase the ace' the caretaker walking round with a massive vat of tea and the guys all swapping and sharing sarnies and the atmosphere being more pumped in the canteen then on the job where they would work in steel and engineering bare handed, no masks, big steel batteries with coke and benzel oil falling down alarms raised where they had to dodge the deadly substances of 1000 degrees openly falling down and no health and safety policies like ther are nowadays, none whatsoever!!! A worker having 4 pints in the pub every day and working on walls over 100ft high and doing handstands every day on the edge...why? A man in panic ran off in the wrong direction from the big flatfaced hammer when the alarms went off (the size of a house high on a big arm) pushing all the shrapnel away in skips (over 20 times bigger then the skips we have today) tragedy, he runs into a fountain of white hot coke.
How although everyone was soaking wet through with steam coming off them, noone would change there clothes on break as you were seen as weak so they would all surge through it.
I mean the stories I've just heard have blown my mind, the shit that is on our tellies today... this is real and relatable, what the older generation need to see, even the young lads today to see what it was really like, before thatcher and the unions stepped in.
The characters he has mentioned, skinny little jack the lad not even 8 stone wet through who would take anyone on especially the big lads. A old boy bit dim and good, slow broad yorkshire accent trying his hardest to save a bird which got caught in benzol oil with its neck snapped, although there was nothing he could do to save it he kept trying, the twins... two lads one would always walk 10 feet behind the other and noone could ever work out why. The guys in the canteen playing cards and drinking in the pub at dinner. The caretaker. The guys had such strong relationships that doesnt even exist today, trust.
Speak to my Dad he would love to tell you more, and trust me you would want to hear more as it screams best film.
Its hard to explain on here, we dont know what we're doing but would love to find out what you think and how you can make it into a film. It needs doing, me and my dad are going to do this and couldn't think of anyone better to direct and make it happen.
Please pass this onto Shane and get back in touch. We start work tomorrow on getting this all recorded on paper and voice recorder, we are going to make this happen!!
Thanks
Lauren and Steve
Bit new to this and dont know how else to contact you (open for details on how to do this).
I have sat with my Dad for hours talking about his past working in the British Steel works as a lad, back then called the "plant rats". Now these are the lads that the big steel companies would call in to do all the hard dirty jobs.
I want to talk to you or be able to send you some memories of my Dads as would make an amazing idea for a film, now I mean this isnt anything that has been done before, slightly 'Kes' styled but miles more then that, you would do it justice!
Just his stories of the guys in the canteen on dinner back in the late 70's, playing 'chase the ace' the caretaker walking round with a massive vat of tea and the guys all swapping and sharing sarnies and the atmosphere being more pumped in the canteen then on the job where they would work in steel and engineering bare handed, no masks, big steel batteries with coke and benzel oil falling down alarms raised where they had to dodge the deadly substances of 1000 degrees openly falling down and no health and safety policies like ther are nowadays, none whatsoever!!! A worker having 4 pints in the pub every day and working on walls over 100ft high and doing handstands every day on the edge...why? A man in panic ran off in the wrong direction from the big flatfaced hammer when the alarms went off (the size of a house high on a big arm) pushing all the shrapnel away in skips (over 20 times bigger then the skips we have today) tragedy, he runs into a fountain of white hot coke.
How although everyone was soaking wet through with steam coming off them, noone would change there clothes on break as you were seen as weak so they would all surge through it.
I mean the stories I've just heard have blown my mind, the shit that is on our tellies today... this is real and relatable, what the older generation need to see, even the young lads today to see what it was really like, before thatcher and the unions stepped in.
The characters he has mentioned, skinny little jack the lad not even 8 stone wet through who would take anyone on especially the big lads. A old boy bit dim and good, slow broad yorkshire accent trying his hardest to save a bird which got caught in benzol oil with its neck snapped, although there was nothing he could do to save it he kept trying, the twins... two lads one would always walk 10 feet behind the other and noone could ever work out why. The guys in the canteen playing cards and drinking in the pub at dinner. The caretaker. The guys had such strong relationships that doesnt even exist today, trust.
Speak to my Dad he would love to tell you more, and trust me you would want to hear more as it screams best film.
Its hard to explain on here, we dont know what we're doing but would love to find out what you think and how you can make it into a film. It needs doing, me and my dad are going to do this and couldn't think of anyone better to direct and make it happen.
Please pass this onto Shane and get back in touch. We start work tomorrow on getting this all recorded on paper and voice recorder, we are going to make this happen!!
Thanks
Lauren and Steve